The New Job and other ramblings

It's been a busy few months. I am starting to adjust to the new job, but the 12 hour days and being away from my kids for so many hours is already getting old. I finally feel like I am catching on to the new curriculum a little bit and figuring out the kids, so hopefully the work load will cut back soon.

I got sick on the 3rd day of school and ended up with a 102.5 fever which turned out to be a very obnoxious sinus infection. I spent the 2nd week of school coughing my head off and then caught pink eye from one of the kiddos!  My kiddos and hubby ended up with the cold/.sinus infection stuff too. We are all on our 3rd round of antiiotics. I am finally feeling a little better, but the littles are still fighting hard to get rid of it.

I haven't been able to get much done for online sales. I worked really hard this summer and got a bunch sent in to amazon and over 200 items listed on ebay, but I am already back to 430 items from over 600 in August. It's a good thing, just hard to keep the numbers up for the Christmas season.  I spent saturday taking over 300 pictures and I am hoping I can get all of those items listed during the week after the kiddos go to bed. Right now I'm shooting for 5 new listings a day, or until my head hits the keyboard! I just keep telling myself one new listing is better than none!

I have school trainings for the next couple of Saturdays and then my hubby and I have 4 stores to fluff Christmas trees at. I'll tell you more about that in another post.

I'll leave you with a few good sales I've had while I've been away.

Creative Memories Scrapbook Page Refills (3)
Found at GW this summer, rediscovered at the bottom of a pile in my ebay room
paid 4.50 total
listed and sold within 1 hour for BO of $100.00

Always, always always buy Creative Memories Stuff when you find it. 

it's not too soon for Halloween costumes! 

paid 2.99 last summer at the TS, sold beginning of September for $24.95

Picked up this shirt for .99, didn't know if it was a good brand or not, thought I'd try it and see, since it was  a Jimmy Hendrix brand shirt. Listed and sold the same day for $19.95

That's all for now. Back to listing I go! 

Flooding in Colorado

I have had people contacting me wondering if the flooding in Colorado is near me.  So, here is an update.

Yes, the flooding on the South Platte is very near me. My parents live right on the river but so far have not been evacuated, although their road is closed and there have been neighbors who were evacucated.

While we do not have flooding around our house, there is extensive flooding (as in 19 feet above the top of the bridge!) nearly everywhere around us, preventing us from getting out from our house very far.

Last night my husband went to help an elderly man that we know who lives on the flood plain. He refused to leave his house and my hubby stayed and tried to talk him into going, by the time the man and his wife decided that maybe they should go there was 5 feet of water in the house.  My hubby ended up staying all night in the flooded house with the elderly couple and was rescued by a white water raft specialzed team this morning. It took him 2 hours to drive the half an hour ride get home, as he had to drive around and try to find a bridge that was sstill open. I am so happy to have him home and safe with us. God has truly blessed us this year!

I have been having pretty good sales (especially for not listing much, the new job is taking a lot of extra hours!) but the USPS isn't able to pick up my packages right now. I have emailed customers to let them know and so far everyone has been very understanding.

I am planning on post again sometime next week with an update on the new job and some sales info!

Hope you and your family are safe and sound!

Melissa